Merge bitcoin/bitcoin#30538: Doc: add a comment referencing past vulnerability next to where it was fixed

eb0724f0de doc: banman: reference past vuln due to unbounded banlist (Antoine Poinsot)
ad616b6c01 doc: net: mention past vulnerability as rationale to limit incoming message size (Antoine Poinsot)
4489117c3f doc: txrequest: point to past censorship vulnerability in tx re-request handling (Antoine Poinsot)
68ac9542c4 doc: net_proc: reference past DoS vulnerability in orphan processing (Antoine Poinsot)
c02d9f6dd5 doc: net_proc: reference past defect regarding invalid GETDATA types (Antoine Poinsot)
5e3d9f21df doc: validation: add a reference to historical header spam vulnerability (Antoine Poinsot)

Pull request description:

  It is useful when reading code to have context about why it is written or behaves the way it does. Some instances in this PR may seem obvious but i think nonetheless offer important context to anyone willing to change (or review a change to) this code.

ACKs for top commit:
  ryanofsky:
    Code review ACK eb0724f0de. No changes since last review other than rebase

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Ryan Ofsky
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@@ -761,6 +761,8 @@ int V1Transport::readHeader(std::span<const uint8_t> msg_bytes)
}
// reject messages larger than MAX_SIZE or MAX_PROTOCOL_MESSAGE_LENGTH
// NOTE: failing to perform this check previously allowed a malicious peer to make us allocate 32MiB of memory per
// connection. See https://bitcoincore.org/en/2024/07/03/disclose_receive_buffer_oom.
if (hdr.nMessageSize > MAX_SIZE || hdr.nMessageSize > MAX_PROTOCOL_MESSAGE_LENGTH) {
LogDebug(BCLog::NET, "Header error: Size too large (%s, %u bytes), peer=%d\n", SanitizeString(hdr.GetMessageType()), hdr.nMessageSize, m_node_id);
return -1;